Employment of Contractors
Document 1790Williams brother to write Knox about contract between government and his business. Hopes for additional employment.
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Baltimore 11th October 1799
Dear Sir
My Brother is now writing to you on the Subject of the Contract His engagements with the Clerk to the [undecipherable] for supplying rations unfortunately furnished the basis of some misunderstanding I therefore in your Candor and the equity of nature men confidence, as far as to hope that I have not suffered in the Operations of Doctor Wallis with his relations
Notwithstanding [undecipherable] misrepresentation should notice be [undecipherable] of supposed [undecipherable] I should have a [undecipherable: full] right to [undecipherable] it cannot be to [undecipherable: deny] that the rations were for the [undecipherable] the left [undecipherable: command] or they have been equal to any in the [undecipherable: States] and have [undecipherable: a better] [undecipherable] The [undecipherable: copies] [undecipherable] [undecipherable] are worthy the most [undecipherable: minute] investigation & will of a [undecipherable: notice] then the [undecipherable: communications] of [undecipherable] of Doctor [undecipherable] The [undecipherable] have been [undecipherable] the Troops [undecipherable] after their [undecipherable] there [undecipherable] the [undecipherable] proportion of [undecipherable] after the [undecipherable] of the Troops on the [undecipherable: line]
[undecipherable: A] plan of ordering the [undecipherable: Troops] and [undecipherable] their [undecipherable: movements] in the [undecipherable: direction] I am [undecipherable: well] satisfied with [undecipherable] the [undecipherable: manner] this arrangement was in the ordering of the [undecipherable: rations] and I have [undecipherable] [undecipherable] on the [undecipherable: various] [undecipherable] [undecipherable] that I [undecipherable] [undecipherable] to [undecipherable] [undecipherable] [undecipherable] then [undecipherable] the Troops will apply to Congress for [undecipherable: Redress] [undecipherable] [undecipherable] [undecipherable] I am [undecipherable: afraid] to [undecipherable: open] this matter [undecipherable] [undecipherable] taken in on this head and [undecipherable] [undecipherable] [undecipherable] to the information which [undecipherable] [undecipherable] [undecipherable] The Doctor is a [undecipherable: great] Impostor [undecipherable] [undecipherable]
[11th October 1799
Coll Nicholson [undecipherable]
[undecipherable]
by Oxford & [undecipherable]]
Type
Autograph Letter Signed
Description
Williams brother to write Knox about contract between government and his business. Hopes for additional employment.
Date
10/14/1790
Recipient
Sent from
Baltimore
Repository
Collection
Document number
1790101440101
Page start
1
Notable persons
Henry Knox
Otho Williams
Elliot and Williams
contractors
Secretary of War
brother
Mr. Elliot
troops
Governor St. Clair
commanding officer of troops
Quarter Master Department
Notable locations
Baltimore
Maryland
Notable items
employment
contracts
misrepresentations
supplies
ration

